QID 980258

QID 980258: Java (maven) Security Update for io.netty:netty-codec (GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv)

Security update has been released for io.netty:netty-codec to fix the vulnerability.

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression).

All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to refer to GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv for updates pertaining to this vulnerability.Workaround:
No workarounds other than not using the `Bzip2Decoder`

Vendor References

GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv - github.com/advisories/GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv

CVEs related to QID 980258

CVE-2021-37136 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv	io.netty:netty-codec		github.com/advisories/GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv

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